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Mason, in Year Three, is a wiz at designing and making things and spends many a happy hour with his dad coming up with all kinds of wonderful creations. So when his teacher came across a book on how to make a model Roman Fort (having studied The Romans that [...]

The Prep Student Council held a Christmas Sock Competition before Christmas, where children had to decorate a pair of socks with a Christmas theme. There were lots of festive entries, with sparkles and jingle bells galore! Mrs Buttery had the tough job of judging but she finally decided her winner [...]

As a final activity to complete their history studies on The Romans, Year Three had a go at designing and constructing their own aqueducts. They worked in teams and began by making the supports. In order to test out their strength, the children engaged in 'sword fights'. The winning paper [...]

Last week moon rocks and meteorites landed at Oakhill by special delivery from the Science and Technology Facilities Council through their Borrow the Moon scheme. Pupils from all year groups got hands on experience of rocks from space and investigated their densities, crystal formation and magnetic properties. Even pupils who [...]

Yesterday we went to Jodrell Bank to see the third largest telescope of its kind in the world. It’s a radio telescope, which uses radio waves from space. They go into the dish and bounce into the telescope part in the centre. At the moment, its mainly studying pulse stars. [...]

Year 10 and 11 triple science groups are almost at Jodrell Bank

Pupils from reception to year 11 have been treated to GLOW dodgeball in their final PE lessons of the term. Mrs Smith borrowed the UV kit and lights from the school games organiser to create a bit of festive fun. Everyone has thoroughly enjoyed this opportunity and are looking forward [...]

Today was everybody’s favourite lunch - Christmas lunch as always it was absolutely delicious. Well done and thank you to all our catering staff for today and all the lunches they make us throughout the year.              

Last Friday, Oakhill’s running club finished the term, as always with a festive run around Whalley. Everybody looked very Christmassy indeed!

Year 9 enjoyed watching the Royal Society of Chemistry's Flash Bang Show last Friday, expertly delivered by Dr Frank Mair. Dr Mair, who lectures at the University of Manchester, educated and entertained the pupils by setting Hydrogen balloons on fire with a bang and wowed them with colourful oscillating reactions [...]